On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Norm Lamoureux wrote: > Thank's Dave, I guess I was mislead. Do headphones > require the same power as external speakers? I was > told that headphones only use preamp power. Is this > not true. > > Thank's > Norm > > Headphone signals are more like high level line signals. They mostly have volume controls which can tame them to line type levels, but often do not produce the sound quality in this configuration that a true line feed does. Jim